Autumn leaves . owder ;Blistered steel, ramrods, lightning rods,Spikes, bolts, hooks, and hatchets ;Clout nails, brads, and cut tacks. Can anything in the classic authors excel thefollowing in racy, unctuous, and, toward its conclu-sion, powerful expression ? The length of the ad-vertisement is forgiven for its lusciousness: — Have for sale — Chow-Chow, Walnuts, Mixed Pickle, John BullSauce, Harvey, Essence of Anchovies, Reading Sauce, Essence ofShrimp; Walnut, Tomato, and Mushroom Catsup, WorcestershireSauce, India Curry, Durham and Coleman Mustard, Schiedam Ginand Schnapps, Cette Port, Brown

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Autumn leaves . owder ;Blistered steel, ramrods, lightning rods,Spikes, bolts, hooks, and hatchets ;Clout nails, brads, and cut tacks. Can anything in the classic authors excel thefollowing in racy, unctuous, and, toward its conclu-sion, powerful expression ? The length of the ad-vertisement is forgiven for its lusciousness: — Have for sale — Chow-Chow, Walnuts, Mixed Pickle, John BullSauce, Harvey, Essence of Anchovies, Reading Sauce, Essence ofShrimp; Walnut, Tomato, and Mushroom Catsup, WorcestershireSauce, India Curry, Durham and Coleman Mustard, Schiedam Ginand Schnapps, Cette Port, Brown Stout, Cognac, Haut Barsax, CoteRotie, Chateau Neuf de Pape, Monongahela Whiskey. The last line in particular has a sounding rhythm;and the whole is instinct with the same inspirationwith which Byron and Anacreon were filled. Butthis must suffice for a taste of the admirable conden-sation of the advertising style, its authors havingthe fear of the reckoning of accounts, and not ofcritics, before their

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